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The things people say that annoy! The dental assistant telling me "you will have to remove your mask". "REALLY???" I was shocked. Had no idea to work inside my mouth I must remove mask? I was waiting for dentist to come in...always wait until last second! Good for your son!

I rarely shop in person but last week I was at Dollar Tree and saw a masked worker!

Keith @keetmuise Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying… Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety Keep it going in the comments 1:02 PM · Sep 27, 2025 · 46.1K Views

By Keith @keetmuise

Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying…

Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety
Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety
Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety
Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety

Keep it going in the comments

Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event - The Sick Times During today’s United Nations (UN) event “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action,” advocate Violet Affleck spoke about how clean air and masking are vital tools to address the ongoing COVID-19 pa...

The Sick Times: 'Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event'

"She also advocated for children with Long COVID, citing a recent JAMA resource...."

“It is neglect of the highest order..."

thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

Ad for the "Mole Mobile" with Neutrogena's name twice in a single ad for good measure. It claims to be "Performing life saving skin cancers (sp?) screenings in Ontario and Quebec"

Melanoma Canada Early Detection Saves Lives Skin Cancer Screenings molemobile.ca 2025-09-30 Mole Mobile - September Dates Hop aboard Canada's first Mole Movile presented by Neutrogena, a Kenvue brand, to receive your melanome and skin cancer screening. No appointment needed! Tour stops will be posted 2 weeks in advance on the website. View out Quebec schedule today Upcoming Stops

Unpopular opinion (?) but for people in ON or QC I do NOT recommend the mobile mole bus.

All they do is advertise their corporate sponsor and then tell you to see your family doctor.

A complete waste of time. Yet people are lining up for hours thinking they're getting a real health service.

Fundamentally, the reason I avoid Covid is because all - all - of the elements of my life that bring me joy and fulfillment rest on my cardiovascular fitness and / or my cognition. I'm not going to risk a virus wrecking that, as I've seen happen to way too many people I know.

Love it when there’s an airborne, organ-damaging virus on the loose & the government tells me to wash my hands and get back to the office. Really great stuff. What could possibly go wrong down the road?

You might be “done” with COVID, but it’s not done w/ you

COVID isn’t even done w/ you after your acute infection

#LongCOVID symptoms can appear weeks or months after your initial infection

It can exacerbate any pre-existing condition / cause new conditions (physical AND mental health conditions)

We already have outbreak after outbreak in LTC (ON) now 5 covid outbreaks in Niagara region (3 are LTC homes)-my Mom's in "suspect" outbreak unknown respiratory. We are not protecting them at all. Outbreak #14 in the 24 months my Mom in LTC. Have not seen a PSW mask in long time. So frustrating.

Canadian Covid19 Wastewater Estimates September 16th, 2025 Estimated Infections Current This Week NL 10,291 12,050 - 21,300 PEI 1081 3025 - 5350 NS 13,000 14,125 - 24975 NB 9770 10,475 - 18,525 QC 86,666 93,350 - 164,925 ON 221,602 240,950 - 425,700 MB 18,382 19,700 - 34,825 SK 16,940 5700 - 10,075 AB 59,293 63,375 - 111,975 BC 71,528 72,875 - 128,750 North 1622 1350 - 2375

Current Canadian Covid Estimates.
Mask Up and Stay Safe.

Estimates Provided by the good folks at covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard...

This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between September 13-26, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Ontario’s COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 14.9 About 1 of every 73 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 240,950-425,700 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: VERY HIGH; 12.1X higher Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 8.9X higher Hospitalizations, ICU: SEVERE; 15.5X higher Deaths: SEVERE; 17.2X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks AVOID indoor social gatherings AVOID crowded non-essential places Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 13-26, 2025

ONTARIO

VERY HIGH (no change)

About 1 in every 73 people infected

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections ~12X higher
-Long COVID ~9X higher
-Hospitalizations ~16X higher
-Deaths ~17X higher

Yes! Ours at last vaccination asked if we were masked because we were going on vacation? No we never stopped. He still didn't put one in the little tiny room.

The Breaking Point: Snow is Sliding Off The Long Covid Roof

As a kid, probably in 1971, we lived next to a golf course in Ogden, Utah. It had 18 holes, a driving range, but my favorite part was the mini golf course. (1/23)

There's Something in the Air 🧵 Imagine every school in the country was found to have Legionella in its water supply. Imagine that the bacteria in the water was making pupils and staff ill....in every single school....every single day. 1/

🎯🎯🎯🧵 by @75thunderroad.bsky.social on Twitter, using a metaphor of Legionella in the water supply for explaining the situation WRT Covid in schools...

Full 🧵
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COVID outbreak blamed for Sydney Airport chaos A COVID wave through Sydney Airport's control tower has left airlines furious and passengers stranded.

In my experience, the general public often don't understand the extent to which critical infrastructure systems rely on very small groups of highly-trained individuals.

In addition, some of these controllers will have lingering cognitive effects.

7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

Important Study from Canada 🇨🇦
👏👏👏

Risk mitigation of shared room ventilation and filtration on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a multicenter test-negative study | Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core

Every classroom, daycare, corner store, long term care home should be equipped with these.

Whether it’s for wildfires or airborne disease, we need clean air.

My Mom is in LTC (ON) and the outbreaks continue every 2-3 months. No one will mask other than us. It is so sad. Masking seems such a simple thing to do to protect people. We also have to turn on air purifiers sometimes.

We have been in several hospitals(ON) the past 2 years and most HCW unmasked even cardiologists and staff in ICU. So hard to understand how they just can't/won't mask. First check up after heart surgery HCW did extra clean of her stethoscope as she breathed open faced on my husband.

Segment on morning news show(Ontario) today in a NICU- the reporter and the hospital spokesperson around a baby born weeks too early -mask free. It is so disappointing.

Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025
ONTARIO

High [No change]

About 1 in 74 people in ON are CURRENTLY infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections ~6.8 higher
-Long COVID ~7.8 higher
-Hospitalizations ~9.6 higher
-Deaths ~9.9 higher

Well, finished one with the 3 PC fan airplate and it does a great job moving air!
Will glue the second one tomorrow if time.
Good coverage with current #CRboxes already for first day of school next week🙌

Hospitals are creating more customers

More community disease

By denying airborne transmission

By denying N95s

By prioritizing smiles over masks

😢

This is excellent thanks for sharing. Now to figure out if I can actually get anyone to read it!

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I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.

Protecting healthcare workers protects us all: Canadian coalition gets overwhelming support backing stronger protections for healthcare workers in updated CSA respirator standard...

100% this!

"Protecting healthcare workers protects us all:
Canadian coalition gets overwhelming support backing stronger protections for healthcare workers in updated CSA respirator standard"

www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Coronavirus: A third of hospital patients develop dangerous blood clots The virus appears to be making people's blood much more sticky, medical experts say.

In 2020 the BBC stated that COVID caused ‘dangerous blood clots to develop in a third of patients’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-...
Then vaccines came along…🧵

#Ontario Canada #covid lab test positivity is on the rise again this week, now at 5.1% for those who qualify in a higher risk category. This is the highest level since mid-February though the level remains in the low range at this time.
More information at: www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...

My husband had heart surgery-in the ICU after the surgeon came in to visit- unmasked. This in a hospital with mandatory masking at the time.(March 2025) It still makes me mad. Health care workers did mask(baggy blues) but would remove in hallway just outside our open door to eat/talk.